Rants and raves about the mess of higher education in the United States.

Friday, November 2, 2018

Mention Alex Jones on Twitter? No College For You!

By Professor Doom

Years ago, on
Seinfeld, there was a character called the Soup Nazi. He made delicous soup,
but was very particular to whom he would sell it. If that person stepped out of
line, then the Soup Nazi would shout “No soup for you!” and that person’s hopes
of a cup of soup literally dried up and blew away forever. Even though the Soup
Nazi was a businessman, he would self-destructively lose customers who violated
his own restrictive policies.

Now, Seinfeld was
a comedy show, and the characters there were often quite wacky, if not outright
crazy like the Soup Nazi. It’s often suggested that Liberalism, in its current
usage of the word as synonymous with Leftism, is a mental disorder. Many of our
institutions of higher education are run by Leftists. Can their actions be
fairly compared to the insanity of the Soup Nazi?

For those not in
the know, Alex Jones heads a news site called Infowars (www.infowars.com).
He is bombastic, loud, and excitable. He occasionally got a few stories wrong,
in my opinion. That said, he’s an important source of information, because he
would cover the many, many, stories our “various” mainstream news would simply
ignore (more accurately, lie about by “error of omission”), and moreover ignore
with a silence that I often find deafening, although perhaps they all just
consistently randomly deemed his stories just not worth covering.

I was hardly
alone in finding him a useful part of any diet of news information; he
generally was watched by more people than CNN.

And overnight, he
was simultaneously un-personed, kicked off of all social media platforms which
“randomly” decided to do so with near simultaneity. We probably should ask some
long, hard, questions about why these “independent” organizations keep on
moving and shifting directions with the coherency of a school of fish.

Anyway, he was
un-personed.

And a prospective
college student, just for mentioning the guy, nearly lost his admittance to
college. Now, a typical student represents $100,000 or more to the school, so
getting rid of that student for this “bad” behavior, shouting “No college for
you!” is every bit as insane, if not more so, than the Soup Nazi.

For what it’s
worth, I know of other places/institutions, similarly taken over by the Leftist
insanity (at the risk of repeating myself), where the members have found
themselves subject to sanctions for “behavior” far outside the purview of the
places/institutions, but I digress.

Another lost his scholarship over a Facebook
message about the 2016 election.

These guys have
been throwing a tantrum about that election for nigh 2 years now. I write this
close to the November elections…I wonder how dangerously childish their behavior
will be if they lose those as well. Heck, I wonder how dangerously childish
they’ll be if they win…either way I, and I suspect most rational people, are
concerned about these lunatics, whose behavior is, indeed, very consistent with
the Nazis they think they’re punching.

Many universities are hiring monitoring companies
that comb the social media lives of applicants, even going so far as to spy on
their search histories and internet activity.

No link to the
above assertion is provided, but if our schools can hire $400,000 a year
Diversity Kommissars who do nothing but stoke racial tension, I find the above
assertion easy to believe. Please keep in mind the student loan scam pays for
all this.

Shear shared a story about one client of his, a
17-year-old who was asked in his college admission interview why he followed
Alex Jones on Twitter…The teen had never liked or retweeted any of Jones’s
content – his “transgression” was merely following the conspiracy
theorist on Twitter,

Keep the above in mind. I remember a
Hillary supporter friend who claimed to be Libertarian, who was furious with me
for not sharing his views. I explained to him that Hillary promised that if she were president, she
would attack Iran, which should, fundamentally, make her an
impossible candidate for a Libertarian to vote for.

He had no idea she’d ever said anything
like that. I then explained other things about Hillary, things which mainstream
media never covered…he knew none of those things either.

Now consider this kid, who nearly lost
his chance at college for merely following
a news source covering topics mainstream media somehow all miss. A little
worrisome, perhaps? Luckily the kid has a good lawyer…but not every student has
such.

My tech-savvy friends have been warning
me I need to get off social media like Facebook ASAP, and I’ve been considering
it. For now, I need the connections as I try to navigate the cancer ordeal, but
perhaps after that I’ll simply walk away…or wheel away, as the case may be.